Shrikes
Two species are regular in the UK, one of which used to breed; several others are very rare visitors. They are small to thrush-sized birds, with large, round heads, slightly hooked bills and long, sharp, arched claws. They eat insects and, in larger species, small birds, rodents and reptiles, which may be impaled on thorns for ease of feeding or to store for later. All shrikes are migrants, within Europe or to Africa in winter.
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Orioles
One species breeds (but is very rare) in the UK; there are others in Africa and Asia. American orioles are not closely related. Orioles are boldly patterned, especially in males (but also on some older females) with much black and yellow in the plumage. They have loud, fluty, musical but brief songs. They are thrush-like in general form but more elongated, with thicker bills. The European species migrates to Africa in winter.
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